The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25
Local and General News.

r. p Flower has been offered the presidency
| of the Richmond Terminal lines
The Sauls Ste Marie extension of the Cana
dian Pacific will be completed this week.
Engineer Frank Ferry of the Grand Rapid.
& Indiana. has been promoted to the position Of
road foreman of engines.
The Merchants Dispatch have given order
to the Michigan ar-works to build for them FIVE
hundred 60. 000-pound capacity box cars.
D. S. Winton. assistant uperntendent of the
Kansas City & Council Bluffs and Hannibal & St.
Joe roads, has rendered his resignation to take
effect Dec /.
The Pennsylvania Company announce that
hereafter when excursion tickets are sold at
half fare, or less, children will be required to
pay as much as adults.
The Logansport Pharos SAYS that the Penn
sylvania Company has detectives abroad watch
ing after employees who visit saloons. gambling
houses and immoral resorts.
The statement IS made that the Wabash
Western is cutting rates eastbound. not only on
export but seaboard and interior point bust
ness, two or three cents per 100 pounds
j. T. Odell, who has just been appointed gen-
eral superintendent on the Chesapeake 6 Ohio
road. was once telegraph operator the Bee
line. and afterward train -dispatcher on the Lake
Shore road.
turned TO tho California Southern, at
Barstow, a train OF thirty-four passenger
coaches. every seat taken. The train was run in
four sections
began its prosperous existence in August last,
operates 1,500 miles of track. This has
been accomplished by building extensions and
gathering in roads already built.
Freight traffic has fallen off considerably dur
ing the last few days. and roads where
engines have not been housed for three months,
as the Bee-iine. there is little chance to
house them and look them over for repairs.
Byron s. Fitch. formerly with the l., B. & W.,
later of the Chesapeake & Ohio road, and q few
months since appointed traffic manager of the
Colorado Midland road, died, on Tuesday last. in
Denver The deceased forty five years of
age. His remains will be buried in Syracuse,
n. Y.
The reoreanzers of the Wabash road proper
have decided to give the second mortgage bond
holders of the Chicago and Detroit division frat
mortgage bonds the Wabash, as reorganized,
for the bonds they hold. This seemingly re-
moves the last obstacle to carrying out the re-
organization scheme
American express companies at Fort Wayne,
has rendered his resignation, to take effect
Dec. 1. He has accepted the position of assist
ant agent of the Wells s. Fargo Express Com
pany at Chicago His successor at the Fort
Wayne office has not been appointed
Il is expected that the trunk lines will to-day
make another drop in export rates. to meet
those of the Grand T-unk. The Chicago Times
says: 1.-THE rapidity with which tho Chicago
east-bound roads scale down their export bust
rates demonstrates that both sides are in
earnest in tho matter. and that il the game
keeps with the same energy it will soon come
to the point OF no profit.
The general managers aud superintendents Of
the Wabash Western, Chicago e. Rock Island
the Wabash proper, the Chicago & Alton and
the Missouri Pacific have decided that it would
be nwise for them to shorten the time of trains
to meet the new time OF the c.. B. q O., at least
during the winter months. With the taking eff
feet, however, of the spring time-ta bles they
will all wheel into line IN this matter.